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Amazing! Great addition to the organization.
Goldsberry is very well known for his shot charts. These are pretty awesome.
I can easily seeing where this is going!
Last edited by TheDoctor; 02-29-2016 at 05:02 PM.
Amazing! Great addition to the organization.
Pretty cool news tbh. Ive always liked him.
nice get.
Good Hire..
Better pg than Parker
-spurs raider making a joke
More analytics guys would work for Kawhi
Dude got PHD. in Geography from Santa Barbara University and has been a visting scholar at Harvard with expertise in "spatial and visual analytics".. not just fashionable online Basketball nerd..
Last edited by spursistan; 02-29-2016 at 06:17 PM.
Nice, never a bad idea to get another great basketball mind on staff
Yeah, Spursistan. Most anyone from 538's stable isn't just a media personality or a hack--this is a good get.
This Organisation definitely knows how to identify talent. Hopefully we keep getting these kinds of shot charts and the spurs don't horde them all to themselves.
Pop really going C.I.A. mode..
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Awesome hire indeed.
Spurs will need all the analytics to beat the Dubs.
Glad to see this guy hired.
I can see pop taking these charts and incorporating them into the defense by funneling a player to shoot from his weakest part of the floor. Then exploiting everyone's hot point on offense.
What else would he do with them?
try to break Curry's leg by beating him repeatedly with a chart?
The weakest spot is obviously Curry's ankles.
It's known teams (at least Spurs, Mavs, Worriers) develop defensive sets and plays taking into consideration the player's shooting trends, the effectiveness of such players in different positions on the court, among other things. So having Kirk aboard with that kind of knowledge and expertise is pure amazing.
Wait, was there a source? So we know a position?
You could certainly use the same sorts of charts to ferret out inconsistency in your own offense -- finding spots where you shoot frequently but not well, and finding spots where you shoot it well but infrequently -- and work on tailoring your offense to avoid those things.
I think it's likely to be useful to coaches in deciding how to defend late game situations out of timeouts and things like that.
And while I don't suspect there's much to be done about making Steph Curry a more inefficient player, I would think that having this sort of information could help a defense in the effort to make an already inefficient player (cough, cough, Russell Westbrook) an even more inefficient player and to push that player to the most inefficient places possible.
I'm also intrigued by the idea of quantifying where rebounds go most often on missed shots. I suspect that good rebounders already have a sense of that, but if you can use that sort of information to limit offensive rebounds (or increase your own) even by a couple of boards a game, it could make a huge difference in a tight game.
Appears he broke news on Bill Simmons' podcast.
Kirk Goldsberry...
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